Shadegg Enters GOP Contest (for Majority leader; Club for Growth endorses)

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Shadegg Enters GOP Contest
Conservative Takes On Blunt, Boehner for Majority Leader
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 14, 2006; Page A02


Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) jumped into the race for House majority leader yesterday, hoping to force the two better-known candidates to embrace a stronger message of change and a legislative agenda that returns the GOP to its small-government roots.

Shadegg's entry scrambled the leadership race on a day when the public interest group Public Citizen fired a broadside at the apparent front-runner, House majority whip and acting majority leader Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), and his close ties to lobbyists. Shadegg also opened up a new post for the Feb. 2 leadership election, resigning as Republican Policy Committee chairman and pointedly declaring it inappropriate "to try to retain one position in our elected leadership while running for another."

That raised the pressure on Blunt to relinquish the majority whip's office, which would ensure an election for a post already being sought by four candidates....

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In an interview this week, Shadegg said he could not compete with the vote-winning operation of Blunt or Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. But Shadegg said he believes a bloc of House Republicans is not convinced either Blunt or Boehner represents true change in the face of a growing lobbying and bribery scandal.

Hours after his announcement, Shadegg picked up the endorsement of the Club for Growth, a conservative political action committee; two conservative publications; and one of the House's young conservative firebrands, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.). A conservative House aide said that fewer than half of the 100-plus members of the conservative Republican Study Committee have declared for either Boehner or Blunt. All three candidates will make presentations at a Baltimore retreat of conservative lawmakers before the election....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301575.html

[davidinalameda]

1. we need Blunt to win

with him and Delay's team in power, they'll make the best argument about the culture of corruption in the house

[NMDemDist2]

2. yeah, and I'll be wearing out shoeleather for any Dem running against

this POS who is MY "representative"

:puke:

[Wetzelbill]

4. ha!

I'm thinking you aren't too happy with that. :) He's terrible. He and Hayworth are two of the biggest clowns in politics.

[Wetzelbill]

3. he's a rat

if they expect John Shadegg to clean up the party they have another thing coming, they'll just get more of the same. Jeff Flake would be a much better choice. He's not my cup of tea politically of course, but he's young, talented and has flashes of conscience that put him on the outs with the DeLay-Blunt crowd at times. Boehner, Blunt, Shadegg, none are the answer to the GOPs corruption problems. Not by a long shot.

[NMDemDist2]

5. FLake is "McCain Lite" I fear

talks a good game but falls in line when push comes to shove

and you're right, Shadegg is a POS in any flavor

[Wetzelbill]

6. yeah Flake has his problems

his biggest merit is he's not as bad as the other guys. Sucks versus Sucks less. :)

[NMDemDist2]

7. Sux Lite

probably sell a lot of ale with a name like that :evilgrin: